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<td class="v">20:1</td>
<td>Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.</td>
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<td class="v">20:2</td>
<td>The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.</td>
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<td class="v">20:3</td>
<td>It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.</td>
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<td class="v">20:4</td>
<td>The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.</td>
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<td class="v">20:5</td>
<td>Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.</td>
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<td class="v">20:6</td>
<td>Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?</td>
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<td class="v">20:7</td>
<td>The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.</td>
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<td class="v">20:8</td>
<td>A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.</td>
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<td class="v">20:9</td>
<td>Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?</td>
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<td class="v">20:10</td>
<td>Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">20:11</td>
<td>Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.</td>
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<td class="v">20:12</td>
<td>The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.</td>
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<td class="v">20:13</td>
<td>Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.</td>
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<td class="v">20:14</td>
<td>It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.</td>
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<td class="v">20:15</td>
<td>There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.</td>
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<td class="v">20:16</td>
<td>Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.</td>
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<td class="v">20:17</td>
<td>Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.</td>
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<td class="v">20:18</td>
<td>Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.</td>
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<td class="v">20:19</td>
<td>He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.</td>
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<td class="v">20:20</td>
<td>Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.</td>
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<td class="v">20:21</td>
<td>An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.</td>
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<td class="v">20:22</td>
<td>Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.</td>
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<td class="v">20:23</td>
<td>Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.</td>
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<td class="v">20:24</td>
<td>Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?</td>
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<td class="v">20:25</td>
<td>It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.</td>
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<td class="v">20:26</td>
<td>A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.</td>
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<td class="v">20:27</td>
<td>The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.</td>
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<td class="v">20:28</td>
<td>Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.</td>
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<td class="v">20:29</td>
<td>The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.</td>
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<td class="v">20:30</td>
<td>The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.</td>
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